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* [[Accidental Murder]]: In ''Mossflower'', Blacktooth and Splitnose start fighting each other over the food they stole from Martin, Gonff and Dinny. Everything was going fine until Splitnose decided to use his spear...
** In ''Salamandastron'', [[Those Two Guys|Dingeye and Thura]] start playing with archery equipment inside the Abbey and aim a bow and arrow ''at the stairs''. Cue Brother Hal.
** A [[Karmic Death|karmic]] example happens in ''Outcast of Redwall''. Just when the Wraith is about to assassinate Lord Sunflash after climbing up to an open window, Porty throws two rockcreams at Folrig and Ruddle (who were hiding behind Sunflash at the time). The badger and two otters duck, and the rocks end up hitting Wraith, causing him to fall to his death--[[Hoist
** Yet another karmic example pops up in ''Doomwyte''. Just when the raven Tarul was about to kidnap a mousebabe, Sister Violet came into the belltower to help the mousebabe ring the bells. She ends up ringing them and crushing the bird in-between them both.
* [[Action Girl]]: Quite a few, starting with Jess Squirrel and Constance in the first book. Mariel is probably the best known and most popular of them among the fandom.
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** This is also subverted in the forms of several 'bad' woodlanders, all of them either hedgehogs, voles, or shrews.
** Don't forget that in ''Martin the Warrior'' we have a tribe of pygmy shrews who are slavers, a tribe of squirrels who make a game of hunting an killing strangers and a hedgehog who is known to poison trespassers.
* [[A Nazi
* [[Ancestral Weapon]]: [[Infinity+1 Sword|The Sword of Martin the Warrior.]]
* [[And I Must Scream]]: {{spoiler|Ungatt Trunn is assumed to be dead by the heroes and left on the seashore with a broken back. He's not dead. [[Nightmare Fuel|And the tide is coming in very, very slowly]]... and then, to make it all worse, a Woobie ex-mook, whose family Ungatt killed years ago, shows up, to speed on his fate.}}
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* [[Anthropomorphic Shift]]: Overall, the characters in Redwall are far more like actual animals at the beginning of the series than they are in the most recent novels. Even the cover art reflects this, as some of the [[media:mmcover.jpg|earlier]] [[media:rwall.jpg|books]] show the characters as far less anthropomorphic than some of the [[media:elala.jpg|later]] [[media:rtam.jpg|ones]].
* [[Anticlimax]]: You would ''think Mattimeo'' would end between a big showdown with Slagar and Matthias--or even Mattimeo himself. Instead, {{spoiler|Slagar runs and falls down a hole. And dies.}} Yeah.
** ''[[Zig
** At the end of ''Taggerung'', Deyna, Skipper, and several otters are seconds away from fighting the entire Juskabor tribe, and shit is about to hit the fan. What happens next? {{spoiler|Nothing. Lord Russano pops up out of nowhere (with at least one thousand hares backing him up) and confronts Ruggan Bor. The fox surrenders in a short amount of time, and Russano and his hares force the Juska tribe to crawl away from Redwall.}} A few pages later the book ends.
** If you're expecting the fight against Princess Kurda and Triss to be amazing, you're gonna be disappointed. And if you're expecting the fight against King Agarnu and Triss (and the ending to ''Triss'' entirely) to be amazing, you're gonna be ''very'' disappointed.
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* [[Archnemesis Dad]]: Swartt Sixclaw, Veil's father. He completely neglects him, doesn't even name him, and abandons him in a ditch during a battle. That's not counting what Swartt does to him the next time they meet.
* [[Armour Is Useless]]: Armour, mostly mail, is occasionally useful, but its weight, hotness, and restrictiveness is shown either realistically or overplayed. Mostly armour is just rare or absent. Unless it's [[Plot Armour]].
* [[Arrows
** The traditional kind are aplenty as well. Greypatch burned a ship with flaming arrows in the same book.
* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]]: In ''The Sable Quean'', Buckler is a step or two away from this trope. [[The Rival|His enemy, Zwilt the Shade]] is spot on: he likes to challenge any strong warriors, [[Nonchalant Dodge|effortlessly evade their assaults]] [[Trash Talk|while scorning their efforts]], and oft-times will kill them with their own weapons.
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* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: A hare beats the snot out of an enemy both for killing the hare's friends and for [[I Am Not Weasel|calling him a rabbit]].
* [[Artifact of Death]]: The Tears of All Oceans. The Sword of Martin could fall into this category since it's fine with the good guys but any vermin who tries to mess with it tends to die very quickly.
* [[Ass in
* [[Author Avatar]]: [[Word of God]] is that Jacques based Gonff the Mousethief on his younger self.
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Relatively speaking, the strongest fighter in the vermin gangs are almost always the leader.
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* [[Breath Weapon]]: Jokingly lampshaded in ''Mariel of Redwall'' on the subject of Burgo's garlic breath.
* [[British Accents]]: A wide variety. Moles are somewhat [[The West Country|old-fashioned Somerset]], with a bit of Liverpool Scouse thrown in (Brian Jacques was from Liverpool, and based the moles off the speak of local sailors and longshoremen). Hares are mostly [[Upperclass Twit]], except for Rockjaw Grang's [[Oop North]] twang. The occasional character speaks the grammatically correct version of [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]. Most vermin are generic uneducated thug with a dash of [[Talk Like a Pirate]], except for Dingeye and Thura in ''Salamandastron'' who are noticeably [[The Midlands|Brummie]] (especially in the audiobook), and the [[Big Bad]] villains tend to use Standard English. Several early books had briefly appearing characters (usually birds) with a Scottish accent, and ''Rakkety Tam'' introduced a couple of Highlanders.
** Generally any character on either side with an [[Oop North]] or Scottish accent is likely to be identified as a "[[Grim Up North|North]][[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|lander]]," at least in the early books where such characters are more common, especially hinted in their names, such as [[Man in
*** As it's coming from a Northlander's point of view, it may be because they can't hear their own accents.
** Some of the Vermin use pseudo-cockney speech or slang, Random Pseudo-Irish accents pop up amongst both vermin and woodlanders, and the Otters being naturally nautical use either standard English with a hint of [[Talk Like a Pirate]] or what looks like [[The West Country|Devon or Cornish English]] which makes sense as the Cornish peninsula is traditionally famed for fishermen, smugglers and sailors.
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* [[Cute but Cacophonic]]: Dotti in ''Lord Brocktree''. Pretty haremaid, appalling singer, worse with instruments. All Hares seem prone to this.
* [[Cute Is Evil]]: Baby Veil causes [[Cuteness Overload]] in Bryony even when he's biting her. Anyone who's owned a ferret knows this is [[Truth in Television]].
* [[Cut His Heart Out
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: According to this '''SPOILER LADEN''' [http://redwall.wikia.com/wiki/News:%22Doomwyte%22_-_Reviewed_by_the_Redwall_Wiki Review] of ''Doomwyte'', the series went this way with the later novels. [[Your Mileage May Vary]] as to whether this actually represents a return to the tone of earlier novels in the series.
** If any of the later books, ''Rakkety Tam''. YMMV again; the book itself isn't exactly darker or edgier (since the series already has loads of [[Family-Unfriendly Violence]]), but the [[Big Bad]] is. He and his army are all cannibalistic and (relatively) competent villains. But like every other Redwall book, the amount of [[Sacrificial Lion|Sacrificial Lions]] only ranges between one and five, and the book still has a rather light-hearted feeling to it.
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** A few villains are good at this too, most notably Flinky.
** Veil unloads on his father near the end of ''Outcast''. "Some warlord you are. I've seen more action from a squashed frog!"
* [[Death
* [[Death
* [[Death
* [[Death
** Subverted in ''The Long Patrol'' with Friar Butty, who fell into an underground swamp due to the weight of the treasure he was carrying and was nearly devoured by toads and mudfish. Luckily, he got saved by Shad at the last minute.
* [[Death Glare]]: Sister Alkanet gave such "icy glares" to anyone who discredited her, her infamous physicks or her perceptions of how dibbuns have to behave.
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* [[Disability Superpower]]: Simeon from ''Mariel'' and Cregga in ''Taggerung'' are both [[Blind Seer|Blind Seers]]. Probably inverted with Lord Asheye, who forced himself into the [[Unstoppable Rage|Bloodwrath]] so many times that he went blind.
* [[Disc One Final Boss]]: The "[[Big Bad]]" in ''Taggerung'' gets killed off quite early into the story, and several other vermin begin to take his role as the main villain.
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: See [[Death
** Judging by the disturbing simile provided in the novel, {{spoiler|Swartt}} was probably dead before Sunflash tossed him off the mountain...
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: In ''Lord Brocktree'', the [[Big Bad]] is killed by {{spoiler|the fortune-telling fox he constantly mistreated.}}
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* [[Downer Ending]]: ''Martin the Warrior''. {{spoiler|The eponymous character's girlfriend is killed in battle and he goes into exile.}} This summary doesn't begin to do it justice.
* [[The Dragon]]: Rare due to the treacherous nature of most vermin. The straightest examples would be Lask Frildur to [[Sissy Villain|Ublaz]], and Nightshade to Swartt Sixclaw.
** [[Dragon
** [[Dragon Ascendant]]: Nadaz tried it after Malkariss was slain. He didn't last very long...
* [[Dreadful Musician]]: Dotti in ''Lord Brocktree''.
* [[Dressing
** Mask from ''Mossflower''.
** Brome and Keyla from ''Martin the Warrior''.
** Jukka the Sling from ''Lord Brocktree'' as well.
* [[Dropped a Bridge
** {{spoiler|Lantur}} in ''Marlfox''. Immediately after {{spoiler|she becomes the new ruler of Castle Marl}}, Mokkan conveniently shows up, approaches her, and slyly {{spoiler|pushes her into the lake, where a bunch of pikes eat her.}}
** {{spoiler|Princess Kurda}}. After her pathetic fight with Triss, she tries to run away...only to {{spoiler|[[Death
* [[Drunk
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Finbarr Galedeep's swords. Saltar in ''Mariel'' wields a sword in one paw and a hook in the other.
* [[Dynamic Entry]]: Done in ''Mariel'' with a battering ram.
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** Vizka Longtooth's pirate crew deserted him after he murdered two of his own crew members in cold blood and for no reason whatsoever.
** And during the performer's play in ''Martin the Warrior'', when Ballaw asks the vermin spectators if he should "kill" a pretty squirrelmaiden with a (trick) knife, none of them speak up. Except [[Big Bad|Badrang]].
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Evil Albino]]: The Pure Ferrets of Riftgard.
* [[Evil Is Petty]]: Ublaz's big Evil Plan, for which he slaughtered entire tribes and put in years and years of work? Was all so he could have a ''pink pearl crown''. He didn't even seem to think the pearls were magical, he just thought they were pretty. He must have ''way'' too much empty time on his hands. He is a king, so it's likely he does.
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* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: In an odd way, with the moles universally being given broad Somerset accents and the hares talking like [[WW 2]] RAF pilots.
** Well given the [[Write Who You Know]], with [[Word of God]] stating that the moles ''are'' all based on two old men in Somerset that Brian Jacques had to ask for directions once when he was a lorry driver, and with Basil Stag Hare based on a former RAF pilot Brian Jacques worked for once, this is hardly surprising.
* [[The Farmer and
** Also, Chickenhound in the first novel.
* [[Feed the Mole]]: No! This is ''not'' related to [[Trademark Favorite Food|Deeper N' Ever Turnip N' Tater Pie!]]
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* [[Gender Bender]]: In one chapter of the first book, Killconey the ferret becomes female for a while.
* [[Gender Is No Object]]: In the later books, at least. In the first few books there don't seem to be any female vermin whatsoever, but in the later ones gender seems to be assigned to them at random, and [[Purely Aesthetic Gender|it doesn't really make a lot of difference to their characterisation]]. As for the good guys, the very first general of the Long Patrol was female, and while only one female has wielded the Sword, females make up a reasonable proportion of the most respected fighters.
* [[General Failure]]: While many of the Redwall villains exhibit this from time to time, Gruven from ''Taggerung'' seems stuck in this mode. His mother, Antigra, believes that her son is the rightful ''Taggerung'', [[Refused
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Sawney Rath (''Taggerung''); he's heard all the stories about warlords with great armies and vast hordes trying to take Redwall and dying in the process, and he won't have his name added to that list. Thus, he [[Raised
** One of the rats in ''Marlfox'' was fully aware of what the [[Big Bad]] does to [[You Have Failed Me|subordinates who fail him]]. After he's captured and starts to get interrogated, he ''kills himself'' so the Marlfoxes won't.
* [[Gentle Giant]]: Most badgers are portrayed as loveable, valiant, cute creatures who are friendly to almost everyone. [[Beware the Nice Ones|Just]] [[Mama Bear|don't]] [[Papa Wolf|piss]] [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|them]] [[Axe Crazy|off]].
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* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Subverted occasionally; Folgrim has terrible facial scarring and a lost eye, but he turns out good.
** Also includes Lonna Bowstripe from ''Loamhedge''; he has a pretty hefty scar across his face from an encounter with Raga Bol's scimitar, but he's a good guy.
* [[Gorn]]: The description of the pus-oozing, festering wounds on Baliss's face are a bit ''too'' enthusiastic. You almost feel sorry for it. Also, the infamous searat ballad "Slaughter of the Crew of the ''Rusty Chain''", which is [[Exactly What It Says
** In the first book, Cluny has a very vivid nightmare/vision involving the shades of his dead captains--and each ghost still bears the marks of their deaths by crushing, falling, poison, ''boiling alive'', etc.
** The final duel between Martin and Tsarmina in ''Mossflower'' quickly degenerates into a shockingly graphic war of attrition to see who can take the most horrible wounds.
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* [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]]: Played straight in the animated series, possibly subverted in the books as prisoners are occasionally stripped as a form of humiliation.
** I was always slightly disturbed that, in the animated series, all of the characters are dressed well enough...except for the otters, who wear NOTHING AT ALL.
*** A funny note of trivia - this goes back to ''[[The Wind in
* [[Half the Man He Used To Be|Half The Ferret He Used To Be]]: {{spoiler|Killconey}}.
* [[Hatedom]]: Many fans have an intense hatred of Badrang the Tyrant ([[Evil Overlord|and]] [[Magnificent Bastard|with]] [[Cold-Blooded Torture|good]] [[It's Personal|reason]]).
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*** When Sunflash starts writing poetry to Skarlath, that probably goes beyond "borderline".
*** To be fair, he does it after {{spoiler|Skarlath dies}}.
* [[Hoist
* [[Hold Your Hippogriffs]]:
** "the leaf calling the grass green"
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* [[Hook Hand|Hook Paw]]: Raga Bol
* [[The Horde]]: Pretty much every vermin army is called a horde, and most apply to this trope. Gulo's horde does to a T.
* [[How Dare You Die
** And from ''Marlfox'': "If you die, I'll never speak to you again, ever!"
* [[Hypnotic Eyes]]: The serpents, specifically Asmodeus, have these. A non-serpent character, Ublaz "Mad Eyes", also has this type of gaze.
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* [[I Am Not Weasel]]: Hares hate being called rabbits. Eventually [[Justified]]: rabbits are shown to be harmless examples of [[British Stuffiness]] antithetical to the one personality most hares share. One vermin soldier in ''Rakkety Tam'' gets the crap beaten out of him by a hare that knows boxing, partly for eating several other hares earlier in the book and partly for [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|repeatedly calling him a rabbit]].
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Passed around occasionally in ''Triss'', particularly when Malbun and Crikulus leave Redwall in the middle of the night, alone, with no weapons or means to defend themselves from danger.
* [[Impaled
** Not to mention {{spoiler|Badrang, Kurda, Zwilt, Veil, and several others.}}
* [[Impossibly Delicious Food]]: Say what you will about Brian Jacques, but anyone who can make food which consists mostly of vegetables sound so delicious to children that there was demand for a book of recipes from the series has to be doing ''something'' right.
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* [[Jerkass]]: Tubgutt. He gets better though after his near-death experience with The Deepcoiler.
** Tugga Bruster is a different story...
* [[Jerk
** Warbeak and the Guosim.
* [[Jesus Taboo]]: The characters live in an ''Abbey'' up the road from an abandoned ''Church'' and several of the characters are Abbots and other religious personages. And yet there's not a single mention of anything resembling God or Jesus or religious services. This may be to avoid the [[Fridge Logic]] of just what kind of church these animals have or where in animal history there ''was'' a Jesus.
** [[
** If the story of Saint Ninian's recounted in one of the books can be believed, then it's not a church at all, just a really big misunderstanding caused by a weathered sign. Even though it's clearly described as having a pulpit and pews.
** In ''Redwall'' (the novel), the Abbey inhabitants were expressly stated to be an "order", with robes and prayers and all that. Of course, a lot of what happened in ''Redwall'' has been unofficially declared [[Canon Dis Continuity]].
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* [[Karmic Death]]: Many of the main villains had very karmic deaths. Examples: {{spoiler|Cluny was crushed by the bell that had earlier awakened him from his nightmares; hydrophobic Tsarmina drowned; Gabool was stung to death by his pet scorpion, whom he had used to execute foes previously; Ublaz was bitten by his pet snake; Princess Kurda fell and stabbed herself on her own broken sword; Riggu Felis was killed by the same barbed star that he earlier used to trap Pandion; Vilaya fell on her own poisoned dagger, which she had used to kill numerous characters.}}
** Some of the minor villains or [[The Dragon|Dragons]] have karmic deaths too. For instance, Brool and Renn are killed by Veil shortly after they tied him up and stole all his food and gear; the Wraith is accidentally knocked off Salamandastron by Porty; {{spoiler|Klitch drinks the water Farran poisoned just when he thinks he's survived the gruesome battle at Salamandastron; Karangool was presumably whipped and killed by Bucko Bigbones, whom he had tortured in the past}}.
** {{spoiler|Tugga Bruster is [[Impaled
* [[Kindhearted Simpleton]]: Notably Blaggut.
* [[Kissing Cousins]]: Arguably. In ''Doomwyte'' where two descendants of {{spoiler|Gonff}} get married, but since by this point [[Medieval Stasis|a couple of thousand seasons have passed since the shared ancestor was alive]] it probably doesn't count anymore.
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"What was that?"<br />
"I said the sky's as blue as the sea." }}
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: "[[How Dare You Die
** "[[Big Screwed-Up Family|We're Marlfoxes, born to stealth and deceit.]] [[The Starscream|Only one of us could ever rule the island.]]"
** "[[Dirty Coward|You have lived the life of a coward,]] [[Face Death
** "So, {{spoiler|Tugga Bruster's}} wicked ways [[Laser-Guided Karma|finally caught up with him]]. [[Karmic Death|Got what he deserved, I think.]]"
* [[Large Ham]]: Cluny and Ublaz, in particular, are as close to this as you can get in a text-based medium.
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** Not to mention Methuselah himself.
* [[Minion Maracas]]: Plugg has a habit of picking up crew members who do something stupid and beating their heads together.
* [[Minion
* [[Mirror Monologue]]: Ublaz.
* [[Mix-and-Match Critters]]: The Wearets (part weasel, part ferret).
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* [[Multiple Head Case]]: The adder triplets.
* [[The Movie]]: Averted. Literally ''half a dozen'' times! Most of the projects failed primarily due to [[Word of God|Brian Jacques']] general distaste of movie adaptions. The ones who didn't suffer from this actually made it into pre-phase before it was discovered they lacked the rights. Those who had rights and made it into pre-phase turned out to be mere [[Dude, Not Funny|practical jokes]] or misunderstandings. Currently, however, a [[Deviant ART]] [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|group]] is working on a feature-length adaption of ''Mossflower'', the second book of the series. Not to be confused with another so-called ''"movie"'' that was brought out (which was just a re-edited version of the animated series with the [[Filler]] episodes removed).
* [[Murder Ballad]]: [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Murder
** ''Redwall'' has {{spoiler|[[The Starscream|Cheesethief]], whom Constance thought was Cluny.}}
** In ''Mossflower'', {{spoiler|Tsarmina fires an arrow at her brother as he, Ferdy, Coggs and Mask escape from Kotir. Mask ran behind them and coincidentally ended up [[Heroic Sacrifice|shielding Gingivere and Coggs from the arrow]]}}.
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* [[Naked People Are Funny]]: When Badrang's in need of a piece of rope, he cuts a random minion's belt, causing said minion's kilt to drop off and everybeast to start laughing at him.
** Which is [[Fridge Logic|kind of weird]] considering they're all ''[[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal|animals...]]''
* [[Name's the Same]]: [[
** And in a slightly different version of this, there is a [[Real Life]] Abbey in France called "Cluny Abbey". When Brian Jacques heard about that, he said he thought it "quite spooky".
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Cluny the Scourge. Slagar the Cruel. Emperor Ublaz "Mad Eyes". The list goes on and on.
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*** And apparently, Dotti from ''Lord Brocktree'' could give Grood a few lesons in choice language.
* [[Narrator All Along]]: In several books.
* [[Never Trust a Trailer|Never Trust A Book Cover]]: Plenty of covers. But the by far most blatant ones, were made by a German cover artist. The [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060105021050/redwall/images/2/27/GermanRedwall.jpg Redwall] one, for instance shows all animals nude. And further shows all Redwallers, including Constance and Basil, cowering behind in fear, while Matthias seems to be the only one brave enough to stand up against Cluny. The one for [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060106055125/redwall/images/f/f9/GermanMossflower2.jpg Mossflower], however, is [[It Got Worse|worse]]. It shows nude Martin and his cronies ''riding'' the Salamandastron hares like on horses (apart from the fact that there are only [[Rule of Three|two]] hares present). And... wait a minute... who is that third mouse?! What do you mean, it's [[I Am Not Weasel|supposed to be a shrew]]?! And why are the other two mice ''blue?'' Artist, are you blind? Or illiterate? Or high? Or everything at the same time? Anyway, it apparently took the publishers three of such covers, before they finally fired that cover artist. For his cover for [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060105021558/redwall/images/d/d5/GermanMattimeo.jpg Mattimeo], he finally managed to draw a creature with clothes on, but apparently still does not know the difference between a [[Too Dumb to Live|''combat axe'' and a ''spike club'']]. Especially, when the axebearer is explicitly called Orlando the ''[[Exactly What It Says
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: {{spoiler|Thank you, Searats, for killing Raga Bol in a stupid attempt to take out Lonna Bowstripe}}. [[Sarcasm Mode|You guys deserve a medal]].
* [[Noodle Implements]]: Spriggat, Samkim, and Arula threaten to do something involving "three squashed frogs and those maggoty apples", among other things, to get a captured rat to talk.
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* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: King Bull Sparra really is pretty unhinged, but he [[Manipulative Bastard|pretends to be more so than he actually is]]. Matthias, in turn, fakes [[Cloudcuckoolander]] status to avoid Bull Sparra seeing him as a threat.
* [[Officer and
* [[Off
* [[Oh Crap]]: Cluny just before being crushed by the Joseph Bell.
* [[One-Hit Kill]]: Even some of the burliest of characters will go down quite easily. Just ask Bluggach, who, after his [[Badass Boast]], gets whacked in the head by Gurgan's mallet just ''once'' and dies.
* [[Pendulum War]]: Almost every military engagement in the series that isn't a [[Curb Stomp Battle]]. Let's say, that whenever there is a big battle in the end, vermin usually have an upper hand at the beginning, until heroes manage to close the gap in numbers/invent a better plan. However, smaller skirmishes against named heroes usually are curb stomps in said heroes favor (even if villains manage to bury one or two of them under their own dead). [[Conservation of Ninjitsu]]?
* [[One-Man Army]]: Badgers, or any creature for that matter, under the Bloodwrath can carve through a horde with ease.
* [[Only Known
* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: The [[Big Screwed-Up Family|Marlfoxes]] have no problem at all doing each other in, but if an outsider kills one of them, [[Avenging the Villain|hoo boy ...]]
* [[Only Smart People May Pass]]: Every. Single. Book.
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* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: The Gawtrybe are an entire tribe of [[Chaotic Neutral]] squirrels, who do whatever seems like the most fun at the time. Also, Prince Bladd has hints of this, though [[Vague Age]] means he may in fact be fairly young.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Most of the vermin, if they're not pirates or bandits, just want to live a peaceful life where they don't go hungry.
* [[Put
* [[Pyromaniac]]: Prince Bladd. "I like playink mitt fire!"
* [[Pyrrhic Victory]]: {{spoiler|Martin}} certainly gets one in ''Martin the Warrior''--[[Downer Ending|as if the ending wasn't already depressing]]. After everything he goes through, {{spoiler|the only thing Martin earns is his freedom and his sword. By the end of the book, he probably would've preferred death so he could spend the afterlife with his late girlfriend Rose. And his sword? ''It got snapped in half early on in Mossflower''.}}
* [[Raised
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: [[Zig Zagged]] with Veil, sort of. Subverted because he's still considered a bad guy after [[Taking the Bullet]] for Bryony, and inverted because even though he spent practically every one of his scenes being a horrid little bastard, Bryony thought he was good but misunderstood, only "realizing" he was evil after said [[Taking the Bullet]].
** But played straight with {{spoiler|Romsca}}.
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* [[Reincarnation]]: Matthias is established to be a reincarnation of Martin, and it's possible that so are all the other Swordbearers. Cornflower ''might'' be [[Reincarnation Romance|Rose's reincarnation]], but it's not spelled out.
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: Practically every reptile and amphibian in the series is [[Always Chaotic Evil|evil]]. Frequently, they are depicted as being far worse than the vermin. Nearly all are cannibalistic. Exceptions made for the ones which have occasionally been seen as pets - see [[Furry Confusion]]. Some come across a little more as [[True Neutral]], however.
* [[Rewarded
** In ''The Bellmaker'', [[Bad Boss|Urgan Nagru]] [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades this trope]] to an underling who was serving both him and [[God Save Us From the Queen|his wife, Silvamord]]: "Life is the highest reward of all, my friend. [[The Mole|Double dealers]] and [[The Starscream|traitors]] often receive death as their payment. But I will spare you for your treachery to me and my queen. Your reward is that I allow you to live."
** As far as goodbeast species traitors, Skan the shrew in ''Mattimeo'' was put in Slagar's slave line as reward for his treachery, and soon after killed by the Painted Ones.
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* [[Scary Scorpions]]: Skrabblag, Gabool's giant (in proportion to the characters) black scorpion that acts as a pet/executioner.
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Lousewort and Sneezewort, Fragorl, Ripfang, Greypatch, Wulpp, Ullig, Wilce, etc. Dingeye and Thura ''started'' a book's plotline by trying (and failing) to do this, whereas most characters who do this do so at the end.
** Fragorl pulls what is probably the most impressive desertion in the series, by taking around a third of Ungatt Trunn's massive army with her in the process. [[What Happened to
** Mokkan (''Marlfox''), Slagar (''Mattimeo''), Vizka Longtooth (''Eulalia!'') and {{spoiler|Quean Vilaya (''The Sable Quean'')}} tried to cut and run as well. But unlike the first group, most of whom were either [[Punch Clock Villain|just doing their jobs]] or [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|were more incompetent than genuinely cruel]], these characters [[Complete Monster|relished in evil and wickedness]]. Fortunately, [[Laser-Guided Karma|they couldn't outrun death...]]
* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: Ballaw poses as "''Tibbar'' the magic ''rabbit''".
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* [[Sissy Villain]]: Ublaz.
* [[Slipping a Mickey]]: Done to the entire abbey in ''Mattimeo'', Martin and his companions in ''Martin the Warrior'', and quite unsettingly, to a boat full of rowdy children in ''Eulalia.''
* [[Smug Snake]]: Ublaz again; he's possibly the most pathetic [[Big Bad]] the series ever had, spending almost the entire book under siege in his castle by his own rebellious pirate crews (constantly [[A Worldwide Punomenon|outfoxed]] by their leader Rasconza) before dying when he [[Hoist
** Lask Frildur wasn't any better. Which is sad, since he's Ublaz's [[The Dragon|Dragon]]. To go into further detail, when Romsca's ship was being attacked by Martin and his friends, [[Dirty Coward|Lask ran into his personal cabin and locked the door.]]
** Vilu Daskar too. He always acted as though he was the most intelligent creature around ([[Surrounded
** Klitch, who tried too hard to be like his father and always smart-mouthed him whenever he could.
** Zigu. He's an excellent swordsbeast, a [[Deadpan Snarker]], and (arguably) the smartest bad guy in ''Outcast''. Yet when he gets into a swordsfight with Sabretache and realize he's losing, he starts using dirty tactics and turns out to be nothing more than a [[Dirty Coward]].
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* [[Supreme Chef]]: Most Redwallers, small woodland families, Beau (although that may just be in comparison to [[Lethal Chef|the rest of the crew]]), and the hares of Salamandastron.
* [[Surprise Creepy]]: Cute fluffy animals! That stab each other messily!
* [[Surrounded
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the very first book: [[Big Bad|Cluny]] [[Bad Boss|The Scourge]] ponders the fact that his underlings generally are dumb as bricks and decides that their inability to think for themselves (and resulting obedience) outweighs their incompetence.
** In the animated series Badrang ''screams'' this, verbatim, from the wall of his fortress after another failure. His minions are indeed phenomenally stupid; the dumbest in the whole show.
* [[Taking You
** {{spoiler|Cregga}} doesn't die, though. She lasts two more books, and in the second one {{spoiler|almost to the end.}}
* [[Talking to
* [[Talk Like a Pirate]]: See [[Funetik Aksent]].
* [[Talking Animal]]: Every character.
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* [[Weapons Kitchen Sink]]: One of the major examples in child's fiction. Let's see, finely crafted light fencing rapiers? Pattern-welded meteoric iron broadswords? Giant axes? ''Tree trunks!?'' Just ''running at your enemy with teeth and claws!?!?!''
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: [[Show Within a Show|The Duel of Insults]] in ''Marlfox''. The characters shout insults at each other and react as if actually wounded.
* [[What Happened to
** It is implied that Plumpen was forgiven for letting Cluny in (probably something to do with his family being threatened and whatnot.) And it would be difficult for 4 sparrows to repopulate the whole thing without some level of [[Kissing Cousins|Inbreeding.]]
*** The family of dormice including Plumpen are outright stated to be helping Foremole in the postscript of ''Redwall'', so either forgiven, given a minor punishment, or the Abbeydwellers never found out. The sparrows had also taken up residence in part of the Abbey yet only a handful of characters could speak their language, so they might have simply gone isolationist.
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* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Emperor Ublaz (''Pearls of Lutra''), Vilu Daskar (''The Legend of Luke''), Queen Vilaya (''The Sable Quean'')
* [[Wicked Weasel]]: Weasels are [[Always Chaotic Evil]], so...
* [[Wig, Dress, Accent]]: See [[Dressing
* [[Wiki Rule]]: [http://redwall.wikia.com The Redwall Wiki]
* [[World of
* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: Slagar The Cruel, and how.
** Vilaya actually does. And she doesn't just hurt a child, she ''kills'' one.
* [[Write Who You Know]]: [[Word of God]] is that Jacques based Gonff the Mousethief on his younger self, and Constance the badger was based on his grandmother.
** If that's true, Jacques must have had an ''impressively'' [[Badass]] [[Never Mess
* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: {{spoiler|So Martin's gathered up thousands of warriors, Marshank is slowly being overrun, Badrang is running away from his fortress in shame, and the Fur and Freedom Fighters have been saved. And after Badrang's gone, Martin and Rose will surely fall in love and live a peaceful life. What could possibly go wrong? ...Cue Badrang abruptly killing Rose.}}
* [[You Don't Want to Catch This]]: Keyla helps Martin and some other slaves escape from Marshank this way in ''Martin the Warrior''.
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